Position Details: Director Cloud Advisory

Job Description:   

About the job

As a Director for TCS Cloud Advisory, you will work closely with our sales team, clients, and technical experts to develop hybrid cloud roadmaps and strategies for clients, conduct comprehensive cloud assessments, distributed cloud architecture design and create implementation plan and roadmap

design and propose tailored large-scale security solutions that meet the unique needs of our customers. 

-Business Development support – Support Sales team to generate new business opportunities and manage relationships with clients, stakeholders, and influencers across the region / Strategic Planning for client pursuits to ensure closure, negotiate contracts\

-Technical Leadership - Lead full lifecycle IT strategy and cloud advisory engagements, provide technical guidance and influence client stakeholders to ensure downstream cloud adoption engagement for TCS 

-Consulting capabilities - Cloud / Data Architecture, Industry Cloud, Mergers / Divestitures, Optimization / Operating Model, Ecosystem Integration

-Client Engagement - Trusted advisor to client senior-level executives, identify client business objectives and critical success factors, address client business challenges through hybrid cloud and AI enablement in dynamic team environments

-Participate in local hiring activities, Oversee and supervise team activities

-Market Intelligence - Maintain expertise in cloud technologies, understand market and customer needs. Develop competitive intelligence strategies and align to evolving cloud trends

-Building Intellectual Capital - Publish whitepapers, blogs, and give conference presentations to establish credibility in the cloud advisory space, build case study repositories, playbooks, and best practices

-Metrics, Risks and compliance - KPIs and Metrics, Mitigate Risks, Ensure compliance as per local and Industry standard regulations

Qualifications:

Mandatory Skills

- Strong customer-centric mindset

 - Ability to assess and evaluate new business opportunities

 - Ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences

- Leadership and team management skills /project management capabilities

 - Proficiency in Hybrid cloud architecture, Migration & Modernization straegies, DevSecOps etc.

 - Technical understanding / experience in any or multiple  areas like - distributed cloud / data architecture design, migration and modernization techniques, microservices and serverless architecture, API and integration techniques, DevSecOps, cloud native services, cloud resource optimization and FinOps techniques

 - Skill in coordinating cross-functional teams

 - Capacity to communicate with senior stakeholders

 - Strategic planning and decision-making capabilities

 - Effective presentation capabilities

Desired Skills

- Cloud certification / advanced cloud certification 

 - Previous delivery engagement leadership experience

 - Experience and understanding of Cloud architecture design, microservices architecture, domain driven decomposition methods etc.

 - Sales and negotiation skills

 - Adaptability to emerging technologies

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